China's Ministry of National Defense said Friday that China has indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea islands and it firmly opposes the US' muscle-flexing in the region, in response to the US sending a destroyer to the South China Sea on Thursday.

India is continuing to pile pressure on Bhutan to take a position on the current military standoff in the Doklam region, which only reveals India's hegemonism in South Asia, Chinese experts told the Global Times Friday.

The Chinese government has sent a work group to guide the handling of a fatal expressway accident in northwest China's Shaanxi Province and ordered thorough safety checks to eliminate risks, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said Friday.

A total of 1,382 companies were shut down and 4,362 were suspended for rectification, after China started a national campaign to examine work safety in July, the country's work safety watchdog said Friday.

Local Internet regulators in Beijing and South China's Guangdong Province have launched investigations into three popular social networks for suspected violations of China's Cybersecurity Law, according to a Friday statement released by China's Internet watchdog.